During your training you will not only have to Balance The Risk as a part of your normal role as the Captain but you’ll also have to balance your own “Command Training” Risk.
Your Risk “Attitude”
Some Command Trainee’s attitudes towards risk while undergoing a Command Course is to be extremely Risk Aversive for fear of “failing”, or making a cock-up, or because they lack confidence. They become constrained by conservatism and as a result sink to become the “lowest common denominator”.
By doing this they remain well and truly within their Comfort Zone. They are fearful of taking a calculated risk and pushing themselves into their Learning Zone.
As a general rule you will probably be a little conservative and Risk Aversive during your Command Course and during the first 12 months after successfully completing the Command Course.
As your confidence, experience and expertise grows, you will naturally tend to tolerate greater risk. Your Risk Neutral region will tend towards the High Risk, High Opportunity side. You probably have much greater self-confidence and are more aware of the true nature of your abilities and skills and so can confidently handle more difficult, higher risk (and higher opportunity) situations. This doesn’t mean that you are all of a sudden more risky – it just means that you are balancing the higher risk, higher opportunity with increased and improved skills and confidence.
A better way to look at it may be that instead of becoming more of a Risk Taker, you are becoming less of a Risk Aversive Commander.
Take A Risk
This taking a calculated and balanced Risk while on your Command Course is part of the “teaching” and learning process. I personally encourage my Trainees to “take a risk”; to try something new, novel or unusual or something rarely encountered during Line flying.
I also point out to my Trainees that if they make a mistake to treat it as a powerful learning experience, not as a failure. It is only ever a failure if you don’t learn from the experience. Besides, it is better to make a mistake during Training rather than on a Check.
Push Yourself
After all you want to get the best possible training and push yourself towards high opportunity, but not unduly stuff up or be overly conservative by retreating backwards to low opportunity.
Nobody said it would be easy!
Your Risk “Attitude”
Some Command Trainee’s attitudes towards risk while undergoing a Command Course is to be extremely Risk Aversive for fear of “failing”, or making a cock-up, or because they lack confidence. They become constrained by conservatism and as a result sink to become the “lowest common denominator”.
By doing this they remain well and truly within their Comfort Zone. They are fearful of taking a calculated risk and pushing themselves into their Learning Zone.
As a general rule you will probably be a little conservative and Risk Aversive during your Command Course and during the first 12 months after successfully completing the Command Course.
As your confidence, experience and expertise grows, you will naturally tend to tolerate greater risk. Your Risk Neutral region will tend towards the High Risk, High Opportunity side. You probably have much greater self-confidence and are more aware of the true nature of your abilities and skills and so can confidently handle more difficult, higher risk (and higher opportunity) situations. This doesn’t mean that you are all of a sudden more risky – it just means that you are balancing the higher risk, higher opportunity with increased and improved skills and confidence.
A better way to look at it may be that instead of becoming more of a Risk Taker, you are becoming less of a Risk Aversive Commander.
Take A Risk
This taking a calculated and balanced Risk while on your Command Course is part of the “teaching” and learning process. I personally encourage my Trainees to “take a risk”; to try something new, novel or unusual or something rarely encountered during Line flying.
I also point out to my Trainees that if they make a mistake to treat it as a powerful learning experience, not as a failure. It is only ever a failure if you don’t learn from the experience. Besides, it is better to make a mistake during Training rather than on a Check.
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try – you don't take the risk. (Rosalynn Carter)Discuss this with your Trainer as each individual Trainer will have different views on this.
You've got to take the initiative and play your game...confidence makes the difference. (Chris Evert)
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W. Gardner
Push Yourself
After all you want to get the best possible training and push yourself towards high opportunity, but not unduly stuff up or be overly conservative by retreating backwards to low opportunity.
Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke. (Eliot Wiggington)During your training you also will have to do some Command Course Risk Assessment and Management and so Balance The “Command Training” Risk. (Maybe walking a tightrope over a huge chasm is a better analogy!?)
Nobody said it would be easy!
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